Illustrated non-fiction books, illustrate me some more?
June 5, 2020 3:44 AM Subscribe
I really enjoyed some non-fiction titles as illustrated, graphic novels, even as manga.
I am talking about this, or this, even these. These are just some of the ones I am most familiar with, but I wonder what else is out there. What are your recommended or favorite non-fiction illustrated books?
Another longstanding personal favourite, though a bit more piecemeal than the examples you've given, is Almost Everything There Is To Know, a book collecting the Observer cartoon "The Rudiments of Wisdom" by Tim Hunkin. It's all online! A few arbitrarily-chosen pages: Glass Fibre, Orchids, Mazes.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 4:22 AM on June 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 4:22 AM on June 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
“Logicomix, is itself a journey through the goals and struggles, and triumph and tragedy shared by many great thinkers of the 20th century: Georg Cantor, Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. Moore, Alfred North Whitehead, David Hilbert, Gottlob Frege, Henri Poincaré, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing.”
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:30 AM on June 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by SaltySalticid at 4:30 AM on June 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics
posted by crocomancer at 4:48 AM on June 5, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by crocomancer at 4:48 AM on June 5, 2020 [5 favorites]
It's more autobiographical than strictly non-fiction, but if you want to know about the Japanese bookshop clerk life and the inner workings of the publishing industry, take a look at Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san.
posted by sukeban at 4:52 AM on June 5, 2020
posted by sukeban at 4:52 AM on June 5, 2020
I enjoyed the Action Philosophers! Graphic novels
posted by ayc200 at 6:20 AM on June 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by ayc200 at 6:20 AM on June 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
Self Made Hero publish loads of graphic non-fiction including biographies and ‘true stories’ type stuff. Tetris: the games people play and Filmish: a graphic journey through film are a couple I particularly enjoyed.
posted by tomp at 6:34 AM on June 5, 2020
posted by tomp at 6:34 AM on June 5, 2020
My son is a huge Percy Jackson fan, which got us all hooked on the Olympians series about Greek mythology
posted by Mchelly at 8:14 AM on June 5, 2020
posted by Mchelly at 8:14 AM on June 5, 2020
I enjoyed the Action Philosophers! Graphic novels
There's also Action Presidents!
posted by Mchelly at 8:15 AM on June 5, 2020
There's also Action Presidents!
posted by Mchelly at 8:15 AM on June 5, 2020
Her work is more autobiographical, but I love Lucy Knisley's work. Relish is about her relationship with food throughout her childhood and adulthood; Something New is about her engagement and wedding planning process; Kid Gloves is about her pregnancy and the birth story of her son. She does a ton of research and is just generally very charming.
posted by vespertinism at 8:35 AM on June 5, 2020
posted by vespertinism at 8:35 AM on June 5, 2020
Maybe you'll come across this for less than $100: Project X - Nissin Cup Noodle
posted by trig at 8:37 AM on June 5, 2020
posted by trig at 8:37 AM on June 5, 2020
Anything by Joe Sacco. Foreign correspondent journalism from the world's trouble spots, told in graphic novel form. The March trilogy's history of the 1960's civil rights movement is very good too.
posted by Paul Slade at 3:45 AM on June 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Paul Slade at 3:45 AM on June 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
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